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Kirsten Gronbjerg

Kirsten Gronbjerg

Professor and Governance & Management Faculty Chair
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University


Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974
M.A., University of Chicago, 1970
B.A., Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 1968

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, ARNOVA- Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Washington, D.C., 2005
  • Honorable Mention: Mayor's Award for Civic Engagement. Bloomington, IN., 2004
  • Outstanding Article of the Year 2000 Award from ARNOVA for "Philanthropic Funding of Human Services: Solving Ambiguity Through the Two-Stage Competitive Process.” by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Laura Martell, with Laurie Paarlberg, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29 (No.1, Supplement): 9-40.
  • "Architect, Advocate, Advisor" Tribute, United Way/Crusade of Mercy, for work as Chair of the 1988 Environmental Analysis Committee, the 1989 Human Capital Development Needs Assessment Committee, and the first chair of the Needs Assessment Coordinating Committee, 1996
  • Award for Distinguished Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, for Understanding Nonprofit Funding: Managing Revenues in Social Service and Community Development Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1993). Awarded by ARNOVA, 1995
  • Distinguished Service Award, Past-President, ARNOVA, 1995
  • Chairman's Award, United Way of Chicago, 1995

Professional Interest
Nonprofit and public sector relationships. Current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector. Other major areas of research focus on the American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources.

Current Projects

  • The Indiana Nonprofit Sector (INS, www.indiana.edu/~nonprof) project, currently underway includes several key components:
    1. Several surveys of Indiana nonprofits on capacity-building and technical assistance conducted for the Indiana Arts Council (currently underway) and the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance and Lumina Foundation for Education (recently completed) as well as an initial 2002 baseline survey of Indiana nonprofits;
    2. Analysis of Indiana nonprofit employment on the size, composition, and distribution of paid employment in the Indiana private nonprofit sector, with comparisons to for-profit and government sector employment and trends over time;
    3. A statewide web-based, searchable database of almost 60,000 Indiana charities, congregations, advocacy, and mutual-benefit organizations;
    4. Analyses of how the sector varies among Indiana counties and selected communities across the state, including profiles of the nonprofit sector in those communities;
    5. interviews with 526 Indiana residents on the extent to which they work for, attend meetings at, or do volunteer work for nonprofits.
  • Faculty Chair, Governance and Management Faculty, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.

Selected Publications
Full Vita

  • "Fundraising" (2008). Pp. 236-39 in The Encyclopedia of Social Work, Twentieth Edition, edited by Terry Mizrahi and Larry E. Davis. New York. N.Y., Oxford University Press.
  • “Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2007” a report by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Andrea Lewis and Pauline Campbell. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm.
  • “Nonprofit Capacity Assessment: Indiana Charities, 2007.” Nonprofit Capacity Assessment Survey Series, Report #1, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Laney Cheney with the Assistance of Scott Leadingham and Helen Liu. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npcapacity/charitycapacityassessment.html.
  • “Infrastructure and Activities: Relating IT to the Work of Nonprofit Organizations” (2007). By Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Pp. 3-20 in Nonprofits and Technology, edited by Michael Cortés and Kevin Rafter. Chicago: Lyceum Press.
  • “Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations: Their Characteristics and Activities” (2007). By Curtis D. Child and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Social Science Quarterly 88 (No. 1, March): 259-81.
  • “The Capacities and Challenges of Faith-Based Human Service Organizations” (2007). By Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Public Administration Review 67 (No. 1, January – February): 115-126.
  • “Foundation Legitimacy at the Community Level: The Case of Community Foundations in the U.S.” (2006) Pp. 150-74 in Foundations and the Challenge of Legitimacy in Comparative Perspective, edited by Kenneth Prewitt, Mattei Dogan, Steven Heydemann, and Stefan Toepler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • “Scope and Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations” (2006). By Steven Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Pp. 221-42 in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard S. Steinberg. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Indiana Nonprofits: A Portrait of Religious Nonprofits and Secular Charities (2006). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Patricia Borntrager Tennen, Curtis Child, and Richard Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insfaithbased.html.
  • Indiana Nonprofits: A Profile of Membership Organizations (2005) by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. October. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmember.html.
  • “Examining the Landscape of Indiana's Nonprofit Sector: Does What You See Depend on Where You Look?” (2005). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard M. Clerkin. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 34 (No. 2, June): 232-259.
  • Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2005 Report (2005). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Erich T. Eschmann. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, May. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/inemploy/indianaempl05.pdf.
  • Indiana Nonprofits: Affiliations, Collaborations and Competition. (2004). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. November. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insaffil.html.
  • "Philanthropy and the Human Services" (2004). Pp. 248-54 in The Encyclopedia of Philanthropy, edited by Dwight Burlingame. ABC-CLIO Press.
  • Indiana Nonprofits: Managing Financial and Human Resources (2004). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard M. Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. August. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmanag.html.
  • "Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations" (2004). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Lester M. Salamon. Pp. 126-57 in Transatlantic Perspectives on Liberalization and Democratic Governance, edited by Eberhard Bohne, Charles Bonser, and Kenneth Spencer. Transatlantic Public Policy Series, Vol. 1 (Munster – Hamburg – Berlin – London: LIT Verlag). Reprinted from State of Nonprofit America, edited by Lester M. Salamon. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2002.
  • Indiana Nonprofits: Impact of Community and Policy Changes (2004). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/inscom.html.
  • "Role of Religious Networks and Other Factors in Different Types of Volunteer Work" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Brent Never. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 14 (No. 3, Spring): 263-90.
  • The Indiana Nonprofit Sector: A Profile (2003). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Linda Allen. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. February. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insprofile.html.
  • Illinois Nonprofits: A Profile of Charities and Advocacy Organizations (2003). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Chicago, IL: Donors Forum of Chicago. December. Available online at http://www.donorsforum.org.
  • Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2001 (2003). By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Hun Myoung Park. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. July. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm.
  • "Extent and Nature of Overlap Between Two Nonprofit Databases: IRS Tax-Exempt Registrations and Nonprofit Incorporation in Indiana" (2002) by Kirsten Grønbjerg and Laurie Paarlberg. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 31 (No. 4, December): 565-94.
  • "Evaluating Nonprofit Databases" (2002). American Behavioral Scientist 45 (11, July): 1742-78.